Chris Brummer is a professor of law and the newly appointed faculty director of Georgetown's Institute of International Economic Law. Prior to joining Georgetown's faculty with tenure in 2009, Brummer was an assistant professor of law at Vanderbilt Law School. He has also taught at several leading universities as a visiting professor including the universities of Basel, Heidelberg, and the London School of Economics.

Professor Brummer recently concluded a three year term as a member of the National Adjudicatory Council of FINRA, an organization empowered by Congress to regulate the securities industry, where his work has been praised as making a significant contribution to advancing investor protection. Notably, Professor Brummer and his colleagues became targets of extensive defamatory online attacks by Wall Street financier Benjamin Wey in retaliation for barring his business associates for fraudulently marketing securities of Deer Consumer Products Inc. Since then, Mr. Wey has been arrested and charged by the US Department of Justice with money laundering, wire fraud and securities fraud involving Deer stocks and other securities. Mr. Wey's associates were also later arrested and indicted for other federal securities law violations in Cleveland, Ohio.

Professor Brummer lectures widely on finance and global governance, as well as on public and private international law, market microstructure and international trade. Mr. Brummer’s most recent book is Minilateralism: How Trade Alliances, Soft Law and Financial Engineering are Redefining Economic Statecraft (2014). He is also the rapporteur of the widely respected policy report, The Danger of Divergence: Transatlantic Financial Reform & the G20 Agenda (2013), available here. His latest policy analysis examines the rise of China's currency in international payments and the need for supplemental market and regulatory reforms in Renminbi Ascending: How China's Currency Impacts Global Markets, Foreign Policy, and Transatlantic Financial Regulation, available here.

Chris Brummer earned his J.D. from Columbia Law School, where he graduated with honors, and he holds a Ph.D. in Germanic Studies from the University of Chicago. Before becoming a professor, he practiced law in the New York and London offices of Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP. In 2011, he joined the Washington offices of the Milken Institute where he is a senior fellow. Subsequently in 2012, he was awarded the C. Boyden Gray Fellowship for Global Finance and Growth at the Atlantic Council where he launched the think tank's Transatlantic Finance Initiative.

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Chris Brummer, Soft Law and the Global Financial System: Rule Making in the 21st Century (New York: Cambridge University Press 2d ed. 2015).
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